'You are treating Brexit like an ILLNESS!' Brexiteer SHUTS DOWN Remainer in heated clash

BREXITEER politician Gisela Stuart shut down Remain activist Rachel Johnson's calls for a second Brexit referendum, insisting British voters were fully aware of the technical implications of leaving the European Union.

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Ms Stuart insisted that British voters wanted Parliament to implement their decision and deliver a withdrawal agreement with Brussels.

She continued: "We have a representative parliamentary democracy and very occasionally Parliament asks the people directly what they want to happen.

"Two years ago they unusually did so, the then Prime Minister said ‘whatever you decide, I shall implement,’ two political parties in the last year went to the general election promising to implement it."

She added: "I think the voters out there now want Parliament to do its job and deliver what they voted for. It was a perfectly rational decision and to talk about a second referendum before you’ve implemented the first one I think really undermines democracy.

Brexit news: Gisela Stuart slapped down Rachel Johnson for her calls for a second referendum (Image: BBC NEWS)

You still treat Brexit as if it were a kind of illness that requires treatment

Gisela Stuart

"They wanted to know who has the final say with their laws, their borders and their taxes."

Ms Johnson, who lent her voice to the People's Vote campaign, claimed voters were not made aware of the key consequences of leaving the EU and should get a chance to vote again.

She said: "We don’t want to do this just because two years ago the public made a binary vote, with a very narrow mandate on a yes or no decision.

"They didn’t know what they were voting for. Allow the public, this is a democracy, to have a vote when they know what we are voting for, what the next generation – our children and grandchildren – are going to be living with."

Ms Johnson added: "Do you think they understood about mutual recognition or about whether we are going to have trade in goods or services or the Irish border? None of that was discussed."